perjantai 8. huhtikuuta 2016 11.00.08 UTC+3 Justin Craig kirjoitti:
Do you fly comps?

At 17:58 07 April 2016, krasw wrote:
These accidents usually happen at pre start gaggles with dozens of
gliders
in same thermals. Flarm is useless there. Only thing that help is
disciple
and safety-oriented attitude, which these kamikaze pilots lack.


Of course I do.

Since statistics were called for, I extracted all accidents involving mid-air during competitions during last 5 seasons (data from Aviation Safety Network). Here are the results:

Eastern Europe: Poland (3), Slovakia (2), Czech (1): 6 accidents
USA: 3 accidents (incl. 1 in Uvalde worlds)
UK: 1 accident
Finland 1 accident

I maintain that this is not proportional to glider pilot population worldwide.